A Primer on Dan(prime)

The Basics

  • Electrical Engineering Graduate with a specialization in Biomedical Engineering and digital electronics
  • Fluent in English and French (Completely Bilingual through a K-12 French Immersion program)
  • Experienced public speaker (Head of Debate team, multiple years of experience in teaching science/engineering concepts to kids)
  • Computer Literate (3 Years Experience with C/C++, Visual C++, PHP, MySQL & 7 years experience with HTML, Javascript, Flash/ActionScript, CSS, & Working knowledge of VHDL, Verilog, Assembly)
  • Creative (Play, Compose pieces on the piano @ Grade 10 RCM)
  • Work well independently and in team environments (7 years of running my own consulting business, 6 years of collaborative projects)
  • Energetic and Enthusiastic (In addition to working I lend my skills and knowledge as a volunteer for non-profits, and train for long distance races)
  • Christian

Goals and Ambitions

  • I want to do work using my engineering, math, computer skills to directly impact the people around me. To help them do things they never thought were possible.
  • Run a marathon annually
  • I make it a goal to learn a completely new application every quarter of a year
  • Live a good life and have tons of fun, meet an infinite number of people and drink lots of water.
  • Keep up my hobby in the web-design and development field
  • Learn and maintain literacy in Chinese

Hobbies and Interests

  • Run, training for long distance races like 10 miler, half/full-marathons... maybe a death-race someday
  • Rollerblading, got my kneepads, wristguards and helmet... oh yeah and some blades too! Getting better
  • Solving puzzles or at least trying to figure them out
  • Hanging out is always fun... "What do you want to do?... I dunno what do you want to do?" repeat ad infinitum
  • Playing on the piano is always fun, especially just trying out different things.
  • Computer and e-mail... life can exist without them but they're nice to have
  • Blogging, I guess this can be considered as a hobby :P
  • Designing and developing websites, circuits/devices

What's with the prime Danprime?

No it's not really part of my real name and it's not based on "Optimus Prime". It's one of my nicknames that has pretty much stuck for some time now. "Back in the day" when I worked at Science and Engineering camp there was another Dan. Since his name was Dan we needed a way to separate the two of us. So Danprime was concocted and the name stuck. Since then, there's been different variations such as Danprime, Prime, Primer, and DP...

What about those "guava moments"?

A few years ago I managed to write down what it feels like to go through a guava moment>.